CARNIVORA. O 



wich's list of mammals from this deposit (Quart. Journ. Geol. 

 Soc., Vol. XX VII, p. 456, 1871), but it is too large for F. 

 pardoides, and is provisionally referred to Machcerodus. 



A portion of a remarkably flattened humerus from the Forest- 

 bed of Kessingland, now preserved in the British Museum, and 

 a portion of a fibula, also from the Forest-bed and now in the 

 King collection in the Museum of Practical Geology, have been 

 provisionally referred to the genus Felis (Mem. Geol. Surv., Vert. 

 Forest Bed, 1882, p. 23) ; it is possible, however, that they may 

 be parts of Machcerodus. 



FELIS PARDOIDES, OWEN. 

 PLATE I., PIG. 1, , b. 



A left lower sectorial tooth (m. 1) of a feline animal was found 

 by Mr. Colchester in the lied Crag of Ne>wbourn, near Wood- 

 bridge ; and Sir R. Owen (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. IV., p. 186, 

 1840) found it, to be " exactly similar in size and shape to the corre- 

 sponding tooth of the Leopard." It was subsequently named Felis 

 pardoides (Owen, Brit. Foss. Mamm., 1846, p. 169, fig. 66). The 

 specimen (Plate I., fig. 1) is now in the Ipswich Museum. 



Another tooth (which I have been unable to trace) from a Red 

 Crag Pit, five miles from Newbourn, was afterwards described by 

 Sir R. Owen (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, Vol. XII., p. 226, fig. 19, 

 1856), and referred to the same species, he at the same time 

 saying that " The Felis antediluviana of Kaup, from the Miocene 

 sand of Eppelsheim, and the Felis pardinensis of Croizet and 

 Jobert, from the Miocene strata of Auvergne, correspond in 

 size with the Felis pardoides of the Red Crag of Suffolk." 

 Dr. Falconer (Palaeont. Mem., 1869, Vol. II., p. 59) recognised 

 the similarity between the British and Auvergne specimens, and 

 said, " it remains to be shown that the former is specifically 

 different from the latter form." 



The tooth of Felis pardus, figured by Dawkins and . Sanford 

 (Brit. Pleist. Mamm. Pal. Soc. for 1871, p. 177, Plate xxiv., 

 fig. 2), from Bleadon Cave, is rather larger than the Crag 

 specimen ; but it seems very probable that they represent but 

 one species, and will eventually, together with the Eppelsheim 

 and Auvergne specimens, be referred to the living species, 

 F. pardus. 



Genus MACHJERODUS, Kaup. 

 PLATE I., FIG. 2, a, b. 



The occurrence of this genus in the " Forest Bed " of Norfolk 

 was first made known by Prof. Lankester (Geol. Mag., Vol. VI., 

 p. 440, 1869). The form of the single canine, which was the 

 only specimen then known from this horizon, seemed to resemble 

 more the tooth of M. cuhridens, from the Val d'Arno, than the 



